Presenting the data

Available Weather Variables

The ISD Lite dataset provides the following weather variables:

• temp: Air temperature (C)

• dewtemp: Dew point temperature (C)

• pressure: Sea level pressure (hPa)

• winddirection: Wind direction (degrees)

• windspeed: Wind speed (m/s)

• skycoverage: Sky coverage/ceiling (code)

• precipitation-1h: One-hour precipitation (mm)

• precipitation-6h: Six-hour precipitation (mm)

Station Coverage

The ISD Lite network includes thousands of weather stations worldwide.